In
the day of affliction it shall be remembered to thy credit; It shall obliterate thine iniquities as the heat the hoarfrost.
When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in
the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.
Only those who know God as Jeremiah did — «My strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in
the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- can so make free with him.
O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in
the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 15:15,16; 16:19.)
Not exact matches
Letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush from Thomas Jefferson Washington, April 21, 1803 Dear Sir, — In some
of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings
of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the
afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one
day or other, I would give you my views
of it.
In the light
of this present possession, involving endless hope,
affliction was not so much endured as rejoiced in by the early Christians, and
of this spiritual triumph Paul's words are representative: «Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed
day by
day.
Hosea heard him say, «My heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together,» (Hosea 11:8) and Isaiah says
of him, «In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel
of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the
days of old.»
From being a hard hater, their God became, in their imagination and belief, a merciful lover
of his people, the depth
of whose sacrificial compassions it strained their language to fathom: «In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel
of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the
days of old.»
Sorrow, carnage, tragedy and
affliction has struck our nation in the last few
days and weeks yet we have not heard ONE word about any
of them from our ailing President.
For example, a book
of «recipes» for all facets
of life, written by Dr. A.W. Chase, MD in 1866, lists ten formulations
of salve, eight
of which contain tallow, in addition to other natural ingredients.17 This same medical doctor quotes the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
of his
day on using pure tallow for a «very common and very painful
affliction,» an ingrown toenail.
Adam Resurrected,
Affliction, American Cinema, American Gigolo, Auto Focus, Blue Collar, Brett Easton Ellis, Cat People, director, Dominion, Forever Mine, Hardcore, James Deen, Light
of Day, Light Sleeper, lindsay lohan, Mishima, Patty Hearst, paul schrader, Raging Bull, taxi driver, the canyons, The Comfort
of Strangers, The Exorcist, The Walker, Touch
Lost Highway She's So Lovely The End
Of Violence A Taste
Of Cherry Ma Vie En Rose Ulysses» Gaze Eve's Bayou The Butcher Boy Wild Man Blues Chinese Box Insomnia Gummo Beverly Hills Ninja
Affliction The Apostle George
Of The Jungle Spawn Midnight In The Garden
Of Good And Evil The Postman Kiss The Girls Dante's Peak Seven Years In Tibet In & Out Cube My Best Freind's Wedding Air Force One Con Air Batman & Robin Character Men With Guns Four
Days In September Live Flesh Ulee's Gold Afterglow Mrs. Brown Rosewood Good Burger
One
day a massive young black man named John Coffey (Duncan, Armageddon) enters the pen
of the damned, after being convicted for the rape and murder
of two little white girls, and Paul discovers there's more to him than meets the eye when John miraculously cures an
affliction that has been paining him for some time.
With the help
of physicians placed on the pharma business payroll, some
of whom were reportedly paid as much as $ 75,000 per
day (that's right, per
day), the FDA soon certified the newly - discovered illness as an
affliction marked by a woman's «lack
of desire, lack
of pleasure and / or painful intercourse.»
So does the pain
of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) in «
Affliction,» written and directed by Schrader, who says: «I get to feeling like a whipped dog some
days.